Meanwhile, locals active on social networks quoted Al Arabiya as saying that rebel forces were laying siege to the 155th brigade in the outskirts of Damascus where the army is launching Scud missiles
at the north.

Aleppo in ruins (Photo: Reuters)

On Friday, rebels reported that the Syrian army had bombed
two districts in the city of Aleppo. According to the reports, the army targeted civilian homes burying entire families under the rubble.

Photo: Reuters

Video footage showed buildings on fire and victims being rushed to hospitals in cars. A British human rights activist said that 30 houses had been destroyed in the shelling.

According to another report, rebels broke into the Baath Party headquarters in the city of Khan Aranbe in the Golan Heights, several miles from the Syria-Israel
border.

Sources said the rebels killed locals, seized weapons, set the building on fire and captured a ruling party member.